WordFes Nagoya 2013 Photos and Reports

The organizers, WordPress community in Nagoya, is a really powerful and creative team. For the past 2 years, they’ve successfully organized WordBeach Nagoya with a daytime conference and sleepover at an adjacent lodging facility. This year, they decided to go with a summer music festival theme; set up multiple “stages”, handed out wristband, and live streamed each session.

WordFes Nagoya wapuu stickers

WordFes Nagoya wristband

My session slide

WordFes Nagoya T-shirt (limited edition!)

WordFes Nagoya Fan

Hosting panel discussion

WordPress security session

WordPress logo & fauxgo at a sports bar

WordFes Nagoya after-show

I spoke about what the core team is planning for two upcoming WordPress versions (3.7 and 3.8). I translated the whole program to give you some more ideas of Japanese WordPress event:

Remote Office & Cloudsourcing (Michal Mikšík)

WordPress Use Case Show & Tell

No More Copy & Paste! PHP and WP_Query for Designers (Hidekazu Ishikawa)

You can see that people are interested in various topics. Of course many of the sessions are on tips and tricks of WordPress customization, but WordPress users in Nagoya were also enthusiastic about sessions covering security, analytics, writing, hosting, and work style.

About 50 of us went to stay at the beachside Minamihama-sou like last year. It was nice to spend some extra hours together after an event, during which a lot of things are going on and it’s hard to sit down and talk with many people. We exchanged ideas about local meetups, played with Leap Motion WordPress Plugin, discussed recent WordPress related news, and just enjoyed each other’s company.